While they wander around, they come across an abandoned section of the village. This mystery is perfect to watch after the first season, considering it offers hints towards one of the first season's mysteries.
Higurashi 's second season fully unravels the first season's mysteries. While certain characters have been shown to kill others through the various timelines, there is a connecting thread that brings all of these individual pieces together. Through this season, the truth behind the current incident and cases from years prior are uncovered. On top of that, this season introduces a key element to the nature of why the series repeats different scenarios of the same time period. The third season of Higurashi contains five episodes that pick up after the regular cycle of June is finally broken.
While Rika and her other friends can finally enjoy some semblance of peace in their new world, Rika ends up having to overcome one final trial. While the first and last episodes are crammed with excess fanservice, the middle episodes tie together the loose ends. The search for a perfect timeline is ultimately successful.
So to get a more comprehensive experience, you technically need to jump between the two series sometimes, though not for every arc. Some of the Answers Arcs involve time resets which makes them hard to feel like true continuations, but they do provide answers and there is some merit to watching them after the initial Questions Arc so the events are fresh in your mind. Gou and Sotsu have made things a little muddier, so now technically you can jump between four series just for one full arc.
The watch order was made to both help the series make some more sense and have a minimal amount of switching between the series. That being said, if you think re-arranging some of the questions and answers arcs in the timeline for clarity would be better, leave a comment with your thoughts.
Ultimately, Gou tells events that are incredibly similar to the original series, but still different. Essentially what it is doing is setting up a situation where, like Kai held the answers arcs to the original series, Sotsu provides the answers arcs that Gou establishes. Long story short, the episodes in Gou are different and cannot be used as a replacement for the original series just because they look nicer.
Similarly titled Umineko is in the same universe as Higurashi, but unrelated. It is the same sort of story that involves a lot of gore, mystery, and supernatural intrigue, but completely unrelated story-wise. There are some in-universe tie-ins, however. You can watch it first, after Higurashi, never at all, or whenever you want. Founder of Recommend Me Anime. On September 18, , a sixteen-year-old girl killed her father with an axe in Kyoto, Japan.
The remote similarities between Kai and the incident were too strong. In response, Tokai TV replaced episode twelve on September 21, with a cooking show. The OVA contains a one episode extra arc named Nekogoroshi-hen. Nekogoroshi-hen was a light novel released in , but when Studio Deen saw Higurashi's growing popularity, released a 23 minute long OVA. It consists of three arcs, taken from the epilogue disc of the same name and a light novel released with the PS2 game.
These three arcs are Hajisarashi-hen , Saikoroshi-hen and Hirukowashi-hen. The OVA contains four arcs. However, these arcs are mostly fanservice celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Higurashi franchise. The four arcs are Batsukoishi-hen , Ayakashisenshi-hen , Musubienishi-hen and Yumeutsushi-hen. Batsukoishi-hen was originally released on Higurashi no Na ku Koro ni Rei fan-disc that was supposed to be Meakashi-hen 's epilogue, but was dropped for being too silly and irrelevant, while the rest has original stories.
According to Ryukishi07 , the movie will be based on Higurashi Outbreak. Outbreak is a short story which it's script is included in the CD jacket of Higurashi Daybreak ' s Original Soundtrack. On the 11th of June, new information was revealed about Kaku. The pilot aired on 15th August, and it is currently unknown if more episodes will air in the future. When They C ry Wiki will leave the following original description as a testament to how fans were fooled by the releases and first episode :.
In January, , a new anime project was announced titled Higurashi no Na ku Koro ni just like the original series. On March 21, , the first trailer was released. The new anime will be a complete remake of the original series, made by Studio Passione with the help of Ryukishi07 , featuring new scenes, new character designs by Akio Watanabe, but retaining the original voice actors. In reality, the first and subsequent episodes of the first arc Onidamashi-hen demonstrate that this is a new series with a new set of arcs.
On August 21, it was announced that the anime' s new premiere will be October 1, and will consist of 24 episodes. As noted, subsequent arcs bore this out. For the original sound novel, use Higurashi Outbreak. He informed Keiichi that Mion is a daughter of a yakuza boss; Keiichi dismisses this. In his room that night, he receives a call from Shion who asks him to confirm the details of their night.
When Keiichi wonders if this could be connected to Oyashirosama 's Curse, she replies that it could to his considerable discomfort. The following day, he discovers that the mayor has also gone missing. Keiichi confesses his upset to Rika with a story about cats, but Rika's eyes blaze, and in her Adult Voice she mocks him for condemning their world. Later during lunch, Rika remains unconsolably depressed by the absence of her friend. Satoko does appear, and she tries to dismiss her absence as simply running errands.
When Mion offers Satoko to suggest the game for the Club activity, Satoko politely declines. Keiichi asks the rest to explain what is happening. Rika explains that Satoko left to live with her uncle, and the rest explain her situation along with he reticence of the Chid Welfare Service to act. The next day, Chie asks to speak to Rika about Satoko.
The rest eventually enter her office to encourage her to act. Naturally, when she visits Satoko's home, Teppei dismisses her. Back in school, Keiichi rages against the disinterest of the Child Welfare Service, and Rika reveals to him that Satoko once lied about abuse against her stepfather.
Satoko returns in time for lunch and attempts to dismiss their concerns. They briefly return to their usual roles with her and Keiichi fighting for food; however, when he tries to pat her on her head, she screams, grabs her head, vomits, then runs away into a cornier screaming that she is sorry and begging for her brother to make it stop.
In her Adolescent Voice, Rika encourages them that this is not yet a "dead end" world, and, together, they can create a "miracle. They do, they wait, and they eventually meets with a worker affectionately deemed the Officious Glasses- chan.
She buries them in polite evasion. As they walk home dejected, Keiichi despairs that he can do no more. In her Adult Voice, Rika scolds him. Inspired by this, the next day Keiichi rallies the entire classroom.
Outside, Rika stops and shocks Chie who feels she must intervene. Chie relents when she receives the promise that nothing violent is planned. This time, the Center Manager Harayama meets with them and similarly buries them with evasion and platitudes.
Outside, Shion remarks that this reminds her of the Dam Construction War. Her sister quotes the saying that if one of their people is attacked two respond, if two, then four, et cetera. This, along with students claiming they can attest to the abuse Satoko suffers, inspires Keiichi to try again the next day with even more people. Keiichi and the Gang move then to the Sonozaki Home where he is addressed by Sonozaki Akane , who rather curtly wonders what the problem is.
Finally, Akane severely suggests to Keiichi that he has said enough and it is now time for him to behave like an adult and back off. Outside, Akane and Kimiyoshi join them looking rather pleased. Akane encourages her daughters to step up their game around Keiichi. Rika asks Keiichi if they really can save Satoko from her fate; Keiichi insists that they can, and she should stop using that word.
In her Adolescent Voice, Rika vows to him that she will not, then adds that he taught her that destroying fate is as easy as tearing through wet paper. When a startled Keiichi asks her when that happened, in her Child Voice she teases him that it is a secret. At the beginning of Rika's dance, Satoko takes Keiichi aside to thank him and ask if she can address him as " Ni-Ni. Inside, she leaves to obtain it, leaving Keiichi alone. Teppei appears and attacks him with a bat.
Keiichi eventually wrestles it away, and he kills Teppei before passing out. After a few months it is the beginning of fall. Keiichi is still in the hospital recovering from his head injury. He has headaches and cannot remember the night. He meets with Rena outside and asks her why Mion and others have not visited him. Rika awakens in her bed screaming with Satoko gently scolding her not to sleep in and help her make breakfast. She explains to Satoko that she had a bad dream. Satoko receives a phone call summoning all members of The Club.
When they meet, Rika's depression is obvious, and Mion offers to cheer her up by allowing her to choose the game. Rika choses hide-and-seek where the rest try to find her before nightfall. She goes to the Saiguden where she searches for the sword. Meanwhile, the rest try and fail to find her. As day becomes night, they decided to continue to search for her even though they lost since she is their friend.
To her initial hysterical disappointment, Rika does not find the sword in the statue of Oyashiro- sama as promised. She does find a shard which she decides she can use to cut her throat. Before she does, she hears her friends calling to her from outside. Rika holds up her hand, spreads her fingers, and decides to try five more lives. He pours gasoline everywhere and sets fire to the home. Before she dies, Rika looks up at her bloody hand, curls down her index finger and snaps.
As she sinks into the swamp. Rika folds three fingers and snaps. Rika laments that she wishes she could return to her dormatory at St. Lucia Academy. She convinces Keiichi to bash her head in and eat her brain to cure him of the parasites that ravage him. After he does so, there is heard a finger snap. Rika experiences a happy sequence of events, which include Keiichi and Rena never consumed by paranoia, and Teppei never returning, that culminates in the Watanagashi Festival.
She follows then stops him stating that she wishes to talk to him. Takano appears to celebrate the coincidence since she would like to speak with her. At school, Keiichi is now the class representative. Mion attends high school in Okinomiya , and the rest have lost touch with her. Keiichi and Rena run The Club which now includes more students but forbids traps and cheating.
Satoko finds this frustrating. Rika leaves early with the excuse that she has to practice her dance. Satoko follows her and suspects that Rika just finds the games boring, and Rika allows her to believe that. Both note the changes in the village, with Satoko admitting that she is a bit sad to see some of the changes. At the Irie Clinic , Irie reveals that Satoko is cured of the Hinamizawa Syndrome; a surprising result confirmed by repeat testing.
Irie reports similar improvements in other villages that started a year ago. Rika meets with the other two heads of the Great Families to ask a favor. Satoko blushes at this.
Walking home from school Rika ask Satoko if she will go shopping with her in Okinomiya. Satoko excitedly asks if there are special sales; however, to her surprise, Rika takes her to a bookstore. She takes Satoko to the section containing entrance examination preparation guides. She pulls out one for St. Lucia and hands it to Satoko. She confesses it has been her dream for a very long time to leave Hinamizawa and attend St. She adds that she wants to make that dream come true with Satoko.
The calendar reads "Monday, March 1, ": the day of the results of the entrance exam. Rika quickly finds that her exam number listed; Satoko requires a dramatic moment of uncertainty before she finds her number. The young teenaged Rika and Satoko enter the academy. Rika is enthralled by the Academy, particularly the formalities; Satoko finds it stuffy, false, and boring.
This carries over to their studies with Rika becoming a favorite of the other girls, while Satoko is forced to spend her afternoons in remedial study.
As the higurashi c ry, Satoko observes from outside Rika in a salon with her new friends doting over her. You said you wanted to experience this life together with me. Very late that night, Satoko stops her sole studying and returns to the main hall. As if talking to Rika, she admits she understands why a girl who grew up in the countryside became entranced by all of the sophisticated trappings. She rationalizes that if Rika is reminded of the fun they had in Hinamizawa, she will return to the rika she knows.
The next morning, in the hall, Satoko snaps her fingers and the chandelier releases cooking pots on Rika and her trio of admirers, but one of them becomes injured to Satoko's shock and regret. The Teacher confronts her with the fact that one of the girls informed her of Satoko's history with traps, and there is security footage.
She locks her in a detention room and advises her to reflect on her actions and study so she may return to class sooner. Crying with a flashback to Rika asking her join her dream, Satoko wails why she did not respond, "no.
After her release, Satoko is informed that she will be moved to the Special Class. The Teacher encourages her to work to regain her place in the Regular Class. Satoko returns to her room to find a formal letter from Mion that invites her to return to Hinamizawa for a day with The Club. Rika and Satoko are picked up by the now college-aged Mion. She attends the same university as Keiichi and Rena. The members meet and play numerous games.
Keiichi wins numerous games forcing the girls to suffer various penalties until, ultimately, he loses and must submit to all of the penalties. At the end, Mion invites them to have dinner at Angel Mort where her sister is.
Satoko asks if she can walk a bit on her own. Mion tells her when she is done she will come and pick her up. As she walks, she learns that things are changing: they are tearing down the school, and the home she shared with Rika collapsed. She turns to the Saiguden whose doors are cracked open, and she smiles as she wonders if Oyashiro- sama has forgiven her.
She hears a ringing and the air between her and the doors pulse. When she enters she sees the statue is different. When she touches the statue to see if the sound is coming from it, it starts to crack.
A horn falls, and when Satoko touches it, it emits a bright light that engulfs her. She finds herself in the Realm of Time Fragments where a woman stands in front of her. The woman smiles as she observes that it has been a long time since they men, "child of man. She stares at her reflection in the mirror, recalls Rika's behavior towards her, and concludes it must all be a nightmare as she cries.
Rika appears to console her and confess she changed the calendar even though she knows Satoko likes to do it. Satoko watches with horror. On Monday, June 18, , Rika takes Satoko to the bookstore to explain her dream. Satoko tries to laugh it off, but Rika is insistent and resolves to study on her own. Satoko inwardly resolves to simply prevent her from studying. Rika promises her that will not happen, and Satoko agrees, "one last time," to trust her.
She confronts Rika in the main hall. Rika insists that it is Satoko who put herself below her. Satoko embraces Rika as she regrets that this was not the response she wanted. She then vows that, next time, she will not let Rika deceive her. This shocks Rika. When she tries to ask Satoko what she means, Satoko interrupts to offer the traditional St.
Lucia greeting to "my traitorous Rika. At school, Satoko tries to prevent Rika from studying from her preparation book. Thwarted, she drives a pencil into her own throat with a finger snap.
At the water wheel, the two argue, then fight, then they both fall into the irrigation stream. Satoko wakes holding her head in the Realm of Time Fragments declaring Rika "stupid. In response to Satoko's confusion, she invites Satoko to experience it in one of the fragments, and she relives Keiichi killing Mion and Shion with her brother's bat.
Satoko suggests that she needs more education to understand Rika, and she resolves to experience all of Rika's past lives. When Eua warns her that it will take a hundred years, Satoko responds that that is not a problem.
After a montage of such lives, Satoko concludes that she must break Rika's will again. To do this, she asks that she and Rika share the same fragments, then asks if Rika remembers her lives. Eua explains that the "horn" that granted Rika the power to loop was "damaged" which prevents Rika from remembering the events just prior to her deaths.
Satoko declares that she will not let Rika win, since her love for her is so great. Teppei experiences "bad dreams. This leads him to wonder what he is doing with his life. He goes to a pachinko parlor, and watches a father with his very happy young daughter. He then sits alone in a park. Finally, he decides to travel to Hinamizawa. He encounters Satoko, who stares back at him stunned.
He offers her some treats he obtained in exchange for his winnings and asks if he should win more, if he can see her again. That night, it is Satoko who remains awake staring out of her window as she looks at the box of treats Teppei gave her. On July 4 th Satoko finds herself blocked by a group of delinquents. They threaten her, but Teppei appears to defend her. At the police station, he is surprised to learn that Satoko vouched for him.
When he sees her outside, he admits that he has been having bad dreams where he relives his "shitty life" over and over.
He promises to never hit her again, but when he holds out his hand, Satoko experiences a flashback of him beating her. He apologizes. As he walks away he notes that should they encounter one another again, he hopes they can have another nice chat. Satoko stares at him as he leaves, then looks at her shaking hand. Takano experiences a flashback to a Matsuribayashi-hen world where Okonogi reveals to her that it is Nomura who has ordered her suicide.
She places his gun in her mouth, screams, fires, and wakes up at her desk. Her phone rings and Nomura informs her that their plans have reached their final stages. When Takano appears reticent, Nomura reminds her how her grandfather will be seen as a laughing stock. Takano experiences a flashback to the rejection of his thesis. Her point being made, Nomura reminds her that it is critical that she inject Tomitake with H Takano retrieves a briefcase that contains a picture album. She looks at some of the pictures of her as a child with Hifumi and starts to cry.
She then notices a letter addressed to her. Meanwhile, Rika accompanies Satoko on the way to the clinic , with Satoko complaining about having to have an exam on her day off.
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